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7.4-magnitude quake off Indonesia kills one
AFP, Published on 02/04/2026
» MANADO, Indonesia - A major 7.4-magnitude quake struck off the coast of eastern Indonesia on Thursday, killing at least one person, causing waves of up to 75 centimetres and triggering a tsunami warning that was subsequently lifted.
Bone collectors: searching for WWII remains in Okinawa
AFP, Published on 23/06/2025
» ITOMAN (JAPAN) - Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human remains have lain forgotten since World War II.
Pentagon chief says US will ensure 'deterrence' across Taiwan Strait
AFP, Published on 30/03/2025
» TOKYO - The United States will ensure "robust, ready and credible deterrence" in the Asia-Pacific, including across the Taiwan Strait, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday, calling Chinese actions "aggressive and coercive".
Hong Kong activist seeks asylum in UK
AFP, Published on 29/12/2023
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung said on Friday he had fled to Britain because he could no longer endure living in fear, with authorities pressuring him to become a paid informant while banning him from working.
North Korea says spy satellite launch ends in failure, again
AFP, Published on 24/08/2023
» SEOUL - North Korea's latest attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit has ended in failure, state media said Thursday, just months after Pyongyang's first launch crashed into the ocean shortly after blast off.
North Korea spy satellite crashes into sea
AFP, Published on 31/05/2023
» SEOUL: North Korea attempted to launch a spy satellite Wednesday but it crashed into the sea after a rocket failure, with the South Korean military retrieving part of the likely wreckage in a potential intelligence bonanza.
North Korea confirms June launch of military spy satellite: KCNA
AFP, Published on 30/05/2023
» SEOUL - North Korea has confirmed it will launch a reconnaissance satellite in June, saying it is needed to monitor military movements of the United States and its partners in real time, state media reported Tuesday, citing a senior defence official.
Kenzaburo Oe: novelist who won Nobel with 'poetic force'
AFP, Published on 13/03/2023
» TOKYO - Nobel-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, a leading liberal voice who defended the disenfranchised and challenged the conformity of modern society, has died aged 88.
Japan's Indigenous peoples fight stigma to reclaim identities
AFP, Published on 17/02/2023
» BIRATORI/NAHA (JAPAN) - In a forest in northern Japan's Hokkaido, Atsushi Monbetsu kneels on the moss in the thick morning fog and begins to pray in a language that has nearly disappeared.
US vows to defend space with Japan, deploy mobile Marines as China worries grow
AFP, Published on 12/01/2023
» WASHINGTON: The United States said Wednesday that attacks in space would invoke its defence treaty with Japan and announced the deployment of a more agile Marine unit in its ally as alarm grows over China.